India ramps AI compute
India is scaling shared compute fast — the IndiaAI Mission onboards over 38,000 GPUs to its AI Compute Portal, and Gujarat separately plans to provide more than 100 advanced GPUs to startups and institutions. (startupnews.fyi) (prokerala.com)
Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Jitin Prasada told the Lok Sabha on March 25 that the IndiaAI Mission’s compute pool now lists 38,231 GPUs and that 190 projects have been approved under the programme. (ianslive.in) The IndiaAI Mission carries a central allocation of about Rs 10,372 crore over five years, a fund line the government says underpins the compute portal and related AI pillars. (pib.gov.in) The national portal previously advertised 18,000+ affordable AI compute units for eligible users and the mission’s compute pillar explicitly lists GPUs at a subsidised rate of roughly ₹65 per hour. (indiaai.gov.in) A third procurement round described by officials added roughly 3,850 accelerators — including Nvidia H100 and H200 class cards, L4s and Google Trillium TPUs — to the IndiaAI cluster. (communicationstoday.co.in) The Gujarat government, via Gujarat Informatics Limited and following an “AI Startup Samvad”, announced plans to make more than 100 high‑performance GPUs available to startups, academic institutions and state departments as part of operationalising IndiaAI at the state level. (thehansindia.com) Alongside the compute expansion, the government told Parliament that the Semicon India Programme has cleared 10 semiconductor manufacturing units, and independent reporting says a further tranche of about 20,000 GPUs is in the pipeline to expand the shared pool. (telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com)
